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Team Vs Ipswich

Ippo manager says they were not as physical as he would have liked and thats not enough effort and they have "physical issues" in camp whatever that means, though they have played 3 games in a weeek so maybe some are sore, which we've just added to. Maybe if they were more physical thay would not have had 11 on the field at the end, as they were very lucky not to have two sent off for last man blatent tackles from behind. That said, Sargeant did appear to try to milk them both and on one he looks like he could have gone on to be clear to be shoot - so the question is, where does milking come in the order of importance - is it better to control your balance if you can and get free and clear or is it much more preferable to milk a free kick / penalty / booking / sending off and have a chance at a set piece with defenders in the way?
 
Rex said:
The craziness started as we were coming out of TGI (Butterfly was full). There must have been 500+ Norwich supporters outside the Queen of Iceni all chanting at the top of their voices. There were green flares flying about all over the place; one landed on my foot and turned my lovely white trainers yellow.
The deafening sound accompanied us all the way to the ground and into the stadium. The banner over the Barclay end reminded me of my younger days reading AA Milne; the atmosphere was Electric.
Where we sit is usually quite quiet; mostly older people and children but today we were joined by several very healthy men apparently in their mid twenties. I suspected an infiltration of MMA candidates shipped in by the club to keep us from dropping off. I have no real evidence of the truth of that assumption.
Some made the comment of how quiet it went on occasion but in truth I did nt experience it. The wall of Sound would have made Phil Spector proud.
On the field our team were inspired. Whether it was the noisy support of the fans, Grant Holt making an appearance centre stage or Marine abseiling form the roof, I cannot say. Whatever it was motivated our team to play out of their various talented skins.
We dominated the first half despite the blatant fouling diving tactics from Ipswich, which was almost completely condoned by the ref. Nunez' goal was a technical masterpiece in its curving bouncing dumbfounding the goalie.
"Here we come." I thought, "Now we will sit back to 'protect' our lead, like we did v Leicester." I was wrong. We just kept pressing and kept Ipswich on the back foot for the whole of the first Half.
In the second half, although Ipswich had more of the ball, we continued to press and there were some wonderful moments arising from our breaks although not resulting in a further goal. The penalty shout was a long way from where we were so I will leave it to others to adjudge whether it was yet another referee aberration.
I must confess, my expectations for this match were low. I was as sure as I could be that we would lose and that my natural optimism predicted their victory would be narrow. On a good day, with a following wind, we may scrape a nervy draw. I could not be more pleased that I was proven as wrong as ever.
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Rex.
I had a chat with Iwan Roberts this morning during morning coffee and he said it was a pen. Thats good enough for me.
 
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